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Let's Make Love
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Directed by	George Cukor
Produced by	Jerry Wald
Written by	Norman Krasna Hal Kanter Arthur Miller
Starring	Marilyn Monroe Yves Montand Tony Randall Frankie Vaughan Wilfrid Hyde-White
Music by	Lionel Newman Earle H. Hagen
Cinematography	Daniel L. Fapp
Editing by	David Bretherton
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	8 September 1960
Running time	119 min
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Let's Make Love is a 1960 comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller. It starred Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand and Tony Randall.

The plot revolves around billionaire Jean-Marc Clement who learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue. After going to the theatre, he sees Amanda (Monroe) rehearsing a song by Cole Porter, My Heart Belongs to Daddy , and by accident the director thinks him an actor suitable to play himself in the revue. Montand takes the part in order to see more of Monroe and plays along with the mistaken identity.

There are cameos from Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, and Bing Crosby appearing as themselves.

Let's Make Love began as a seemingly ill-fated project, with Monroe, Montand and Cukor all considering it subpar. Monroe had recently appeared in three of the most successful performances of her career, Bus Stop, The Prince and the Showgirl, and Some Like It Hot. "Let's Make Love" was not a project that appealed to her, but she was obliged to shoot the picture due to contractual obligations with Twentieth Century Fox. Complicating matters was an affair sparked between Monroe and Montand during the production, despite Monroe's marriage to playwright Arthur Miller and Montand's to actress Simone Signoret.

Arthur Miller revised the script so that more emphasis was given to Monroe. Gregory Peck, Cary Grant and James Stewart all turned the leading role down. Other stars who were offered the lead, but refused to participate, were Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, and Yul Brynner [1]

The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture for Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen and two BAFTA nominations for Best Film from any Source for George Cukor and for Best Foreign Actor, Yves Montand. Although it failed at the box office, it is considered by some fans of Monroe and Montand to contain some of their most charming work, and has been evaluated by auteurist critics as one of Cukor's greatest comedies.

• Let's Make Love at the Internet Movie Database

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